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...there's good reason to doubt Greece will find any quick fix for its tax problems. Like other southern European nations, the country's culture of tax evasion is deeply rooted, woven into the very fabric of relations between the citizen and state. "Greeks love their country, but they don't trust it," says a small businessman who asked to be called Dimitris, saying he feared repercussion from the authorities if he gave his real name. "They tell us the state is broken. There is no money for health, for pensions, for education. On the other hand, we see people...
...Khan talks easily about movies - he loves them with the ardor of a lifelong fan - and almost as freely about his struggle to become an actor. He grew up in Jaipur, a city of crumbling palaces in the north Indian desert, as the eldest son of a conservative, aristocratic Muslim family. The popular movies he watched in the 1960s, such as Mughal-E-Azam and Guide, were pure escape - gorgeous fantasies of epic love and tragedy. By the time he was a teenager in the 1970s, the socially conscious new wave of the 1960s - so-called parallel cinema - began...
...Hollywood or Bollywood. "I feel very sad about it," Khan says. But he seems to have escaped that fate. "Everybody here calls me about him," Nair says from New York. Khan had a small part in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited and appears as Natalie Portman's love interest in New York, I Love You in a segment directed by Nair. And he may star opposite Cate Blanchett in a planned film about the relationship between Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, wife of India's last viceroy. Khan says coyly that he is "very eager...
...Studios could make healthy profits with smaller budgets, giving directors the freedom to do more inventive stories, without huge stars or musical numbers. Khan starred in one of the early "multiplex movies" - Maqbool, a 2003 retelling of Macbeth - and the genre has thrived. (Read "Hollywood Meets Bollywood: Finally, a Love Story...
...know I am really home when I get that first slice from Palumbo's Pizza on Route 9 in Old Bridge. The Midwest has grown on me these past 30 years, but it can be a bit staid. Jersey? There's never a dull moment! That's why I love it--Jay, Silent Bob, Snooki...